Sunday, 11 December 2011

Death sells; this is something comic publishers learned
quite some time ago and by God they’ll milk it for as long as they still have
characters left to kill. The death of Ultimate Spider-Man has been particularly
controversial for a number of reasons, first and foremost because as a general
rule resurrection doesn’t happen in the Ultimate universe so Peter Parker is
more likely than not gone forever. Secondly Marvel had the gall to replace him
with someone who isn’t white, and every closeted racist knows that any new
character who isn’t a white male is just the writer trying to be PC.

But we aren’t here to talk about the new Ultimate
Spider-Man Miles Morales (whose first few issues are out now); we’re here to talk
about Peter Parker.